Oliver!

Advantages: Wonderful casting, could see it again and again.
Disadvantages: Some seats, not having a great view.

...Oliver! We went to see the matinee performance Wednesday 21st Jan at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, what a show! Just get the tube to Covent Garden, walk through the market straight out the back of the market and the theatre is right in front of you. We paid £37-50 each for our tickets in the stalls, which I had brought back in April 08. Our seats where row Y 1 - 3. When booking it did not say that they are limited views, anyone from row W - X - Y and further back would have a job to see the top view of the set. We had to dip our heads to see what was going on on the upper level of the stage and at times quiet disappointing, the rows behind us must have found it even worse and there where another six rows behind. The problem being that the overhang from the floor above blocks out the view of the upper scene on the stage. So...

bostonianbeer 22.01.2009 · Read review
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Oliver with a twist.

Advantages: Great Characters | Brill Music | It's Disney
Disadvantages: Backgrounds are a little weak

...I've a confession to make? I'm a bit of a Disney addict, I just love sitting with my children and watching the animated films with them. And today we watched Oliver & Company, the 27th animated classic that was first released in 1988, which just happens to be the year I left school. This is one of the lesser known Disney films and I really believe it deserves a little more attention so I've decided to tell you all about it. ---About the story--- As with many of the better Disney animations, Oliver & Company is based on a classic story, and in this case it's Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. However instead of a little orphan boy, we have an abandoned kitten as our hero. After all his brothers and sisters have been sold to new homes, Oliver is left to fend for himself on the streets of 1980's New York. He soon meets up...

sandemp 02.05.2005 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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OLIVE THE SKIN YOUR IN!

Advantages: Instant effect, skin softening, light scent, perfect pick me up.
Disadvantages: A little pricy, not useful for large areas of skin.

...I have loved the Palmers skincare range ever since my boyfriend introduced me about two years ago. He always smells of lovely sweet vanilla and I found out it is down to his daily use of Palmers Coco butter, which is the range they are most well known for producing. They have been making the Palmers range for over 160 years now, so they definitely know what they are doing and they specialise in skincare so trustworthy they seem to be!. However on one of my many shopping trips I found that they had begun a new range with Olive butter rather then coco butter. Whether I had just never seen it before I don't know, but as I am open to all things new, I gave their body lotion a try and Wham?I was besotted with the stuff. (Although I am still a loyal follower of their coco butter formula!) I was really lucky to get a special promotion...

izzoh 30.12.2008 · Read review
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* Philosopher Stone *

Advantages: Good Family Film
Disadvantages: Over-Acting , Parts Missing

...Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone (HPATFS) is based on the book with the same title by J K Rowling. The film is taken from a series of books/films. HPATFS was directed by Chris Columbus and released on 16th November 2001. HPATFS stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. Running time of the movie is 147 minutes. Harry Potter is an orphan. He lives with his rich aunt and uncle and cousin Dudley ; they are horrible to him. On Harry's eleventh birthday , he receives a letter telling him that he has been accepted at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. What will happen to Harry when he attends Hogwarts ? Why Is Harry in more danger than any of the other students ? Watch Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone to find out! I had heard of Harry Potter but had not read any of the books , but when a friend recommended I read them...

xdonzx 19.10.2008 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Palmer's Olive Butter

Advantages: absorbs quickly, nice smell
Disadvantages: the bottle

...I first came across this body lotion after finding a sample of it in a magazine. I loved it, so went straight out and got some. ~About the product~ The brand Palmer's are most well known for their range of cocoa butter products. They have now brought out a range of products made with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, which they call the olive butter formula. They say that this product will 'penetrate the skin immediately' to leave it feeling 'soothed and softened.' It is also organic. ~About Olive Oil in Skincare~ I first read about the concept of using Olive oil as a skincare product on an internet beauty site. There was an article there written by a woman who had been using it as a facial cleanser for several years and swore that it was better than anything the premium brands had to offer. The concept of applying oil directly to your...

pink_champagne 19.10.2007 · Read review
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The weird standing stones at Callanish

Advantages: Free to visit, very unusual
Disadvantages: Remote location

...From an archaeological and historical point of view the standing stones at Callanish are of equal importance to Stonehenge. Yet whilst the latter recently received over 36,000 visitors in a single day for the summer solstice (21st June 2009) Callanish receives only a few thousand visitors every year. This is due entirely to Callanish's location on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, which is just about as remote as you can get within the British Isles. I have always known about the existence of the standing stones at Callanish but only took a real interest in them earlier this year when I was planning my visit. I have seen Stonehenge hundreds of times, my brother used to live in the next village, and even now it never fails to turn my head, but they have become far too commercial for my liking in recent years. The sheer remoteness...

micksheff 22.08.2009 · Read review
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Meet the stone family

Advantages: Easy to watch and an array of well known actors
Disadvantages: It isn't the most interesting film you'll ever watch

...I bought the family stone for one reason only and that was because the cast was a mix of well known faces! I know I should look for more than this but, being a Sex and the City fan I am always keen to watch anything with Sarah Jessica Parker in! Along with a variety of others who I have seen in other films and enjoyed then it was surely to be a winner wasn't it? Released in 2005 the film was written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. The story: The stone family are very close knit and celebrate Christmas together every year. When the favourite son, Everett, decides to bring his girlfriend Meredith with him to meet his family it doesn't quite go to plan! He has plans to ask his mother for his grandmother's ring to propose to Meredith but, his family pretty much take an instant dislike to her and find Meredith to be too uptight...

frankiecesca 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Shaking it up in the kitchen with Jamie Oliver

Advantages: Easy to use, home made sauces, no mess, healthy
Disadvantages: None

...The Jaime Oliver Flavour Shaker We all know and love Jamie Oliver, the award winning Naked Chef, star of Jamie's school dinners and successful restaurants, books and cookery programmes. I am going to review today his Flavour Shaker. If you are not familiar with the Jaime Flavour Shaker it is actually one of his inventions. He modelled it on the process of a traditional pestle and mortar. A pestle and mortar grind ingredients together to make a nice paste or marinade but it a very labour intensive way of mixing, requires quite a bit of strength and makes a lot of mess. The flavour shaker looks quite like a salt and pepper shaker and allows you to put in lots of different ingredients, shake it up with the help of a ceramic ball, and then turns it into a sauce. It has a lid on the top so no mess. My husband and I received one...

Spottydog11 14.05.2008 · Read review
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